Battlefield - The Battle For The Crimea - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2020
- Battlefield - The Battle For The Crimea - Part 1
For many years the 'Battlefield' series has led the way in World War II documentary programming, establishing itself as a firm favourite with generations of viewers from around the world.
The Battle for the Crimea was an eight-month-long campaign by Axis forces to conquer the Crimea Peninsula and was the scene of some of the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front during World War II. The German, Romanian, and defending Soviet troops suffered heavy casualties as the Axis forces tried to advance through the Isthmus of Perekop linking the Crimean peninsula to the mainland at Perekop, from summer of 1941 through to the first half of 1942.
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My Father was with his Regiment, the Infanterie Regiment 420, 1st Kompanie on the Storm of Sewastopol.
First they take the Fedyukini Hights, then the Sapun Hights. After that, they had to fight at the engl. graveyard from WW I. And the fight goes on to the airport Sewastopol VII an endet at the Streleskaja Bay. The regiment looses 60% of his man. But without a break the Regiment went back to his Division (the 125. I.D.) to caputered Rostov (half of Rostov was captured by the 125 I.D.), where his Regiment takes in daring stroke the Bridge of Bataisk together with the Brandenburger. After that they carry on to Krasnodar, Maikop und Tuapse. His last fight he has on the Kuban Brückenkopf, where he was seriously woundet, when he and his camarad have fight against T 34 Tank with mines, which they placed under the tower of the tanks.
He always spoke of the Russiansoldiers with respect.
RIP!as a sevastopol habbitant i can say that german combatants are respected, so you are welcome!there still exists german 19 centurys grave on the north side of sevastopol.
This must not happen again! Never! In Germany, there is such a square-Alexanderplatz... Do you remember who it was named after 200 years ago? ))) The Germans must not allow Europe to turn against Russia again!
@@user-gg3vq4yc7i well, guess what! It IS happening again. And it's not Germans turning Europe against Russia, but rather Putin 😂. Enjoy guys!
@@user-gg3vq4yc7ithis didn't age well
My beloved wife of 20 years is from Sevastopol. I've spent most of my summers for the last two decades in Sevastopol and the rest of the Crimea. It's a beautiful place but you can see the remains of the war everywhere. I go metal detecting while I'm there. The fields behind my wife's family's house is so choked with shell splinters and fuze rings from the artillery that it's useless. You can't find anything but that stuff. And occasionally an unexploded 75mm or 120mm shell. Those get your attention in a hurry.
No reclaiming or recycling metals there? No local metal workers/artists looking for materials?
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 You do understand that old or not many of the old shells and bombs can still blast you into a blood spray with nothing left to bury?
@@dwightehowell8179 He said shell splinters, which means fragments. He also does mention the occasional unexploded shell, to which I am NOT referring to. Got it Dwight?
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 As he made very clear when you go digging on a battle field you do not get to select what you find in advance. There are shells, some of which may still be live, scattered all over that location. I'd hesitate to dig a hole for any purpose at that location.
@@dwightehowell8179 and 30% of shells were duds... Very dangerous
What a great job narrating the position's of the infantrys
Remember being 13 years old and watching this series on the discovery channel on a sunday afternoon
Happy times
@Jerry Creasy who bought history channel is evil
WOOOW.. Nobody cares!
yess, good times
watching killing and enjoying it , how sick
A rather thorough and truthful review of what happened in Crimea in 1941-1942. Though it strikes me why they didn't say a word that it was a second attempt of trying to seize the Sevastopol sea base. The first one took place in 1850s when united Anglo-French forces were doing the same.
Those guys got a rough handling , i think .
I watched this series about three decades ago when it first came out and it is far and away the best one going. The younger Internet Video makers should study this series to learn what real production value look like. The history is scholarly, too.
Yeah, Zaporozhye is misplaced on the map. It should be on Dnipro river.
I wish it was like the good old days where the History Channel actually did history
@MrOhevi hopefully history comes back into the mainstream
Got to make more of it
Back in the day I used to call it the WWII channel because it seemed like they only show that only showed that. A very narrow idea of History. However, compared to what it's become in recent years, 😆😆
Amazing how history repeats itself....
Only four month into Barbarossa and German weaknesses are already becoming very apparent, especially in manpower and logistics.
No ads in the beginning?! No ads during?! Is it a trick? AWESOME!!
Just at the very end! It's amazing lol
No embellishments, no personalized theories; Just history as it happened, other You Tube channels could learn a few lessons.
That is what i'd like to say! Thank you. From Russia and not very good in language
TIK does a excellent job
This isnt a youtube made video. It was originally on tv. Its professional. Its the battlefield series from years ago
@@johnhurd72 TIK is a accredited professional
@@Detroittruckdoctor55 yeah i like TIKs stuff. And yeah i would say hes professional. My use of professional was more in reference to the person who thought the uploader made this. RUclipsrs can be professional. This one is not. Just a re-uploader haha. However i am grateful for the upload!
47:38 Quite a shot! (cinematographically speaking)
I remember this gets into Soviet filmmaking of the battle, postwar. A lot of propaganda was made. This is about the only doc of the Battlefield series to be polluted with this stuff, to my recollection. It’s still good to look at. From recent events, the annexation, it’s clear that this battle was built up a lot as propaganda, postwar. Great victory it was though.
My Great Uncle was bombardier on the first US bombing raid on Ploesti, in 1943, flying out of North Africa. He was in the lead plane, named "Big Operator" - it was a daylight raid - scary as hell, but he made it through. He had fascinating stories.
@@HA-gu1qk "normal".....no, not normal. But this issue with Ukraine has been seeded by the way that the SU broke up in 91 - large populations of ethnic and cultural Russians inside another country was just waiting for a leader like Putin to come along and exploit the situation. An opportunity at population exchange in 1991 was missed - and today we could have slight different borders, with a much more peaceful situation.
@@HA-gu1qk Because Russia's far east is the most prosperous piece of land land on the Earth. In 1904, a geographer named Halford Mackinder called it the heartland. Anyone who controls the heartland controls the world. The west is desperate to conquer that land to blow life to its dying empire.
I love this battle, if you want to know more read Robert Forczyk's "Where the Iron Crosses grow."
Read that... great book
@@Grandizer8989 Is it fiction or a history book?
Thanks for the recommendation
Thank you for posting this. Fantastic documentary. Great production.
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This documentary is an in-depth "look" @ WWll; thanks. 😷👣
I love this series
Manstein... my fav German General.
hermann balck on me. mannstein top 5.
I have the fondest memories of vacationing there with family before we moved to the states. Even to this day, you can see the scars from the war
@Flat Earth FloridaAre you referring to the ethnicity or nationality?
@Flat Earth Florida yeah pretty much, Crimea is to them what Florida is to us, same thing with Odessa
Even to this day there is no bridge over the Kerch Strait 😂
Nice to see a German perspective of the war for a change.
The cult classic World War II movie "Cross of Iron" portrays the German retreat from the Kuban bridgehead on the Taman Peninsula in Autumn 1943.
May I recommend a great Soviet film “they fought for motherland”. Available on RUclips with subs
@David Vazquez Coburn was pushing fifty years old when he starred in Cross of Iron, nearly twenty years older than the real life inspiration for Rolf Steiner -- a German landser named Johann Schwerdfeger. I agree that Coburn was a bit old for the role. However, I thought Coburn gave a solid performance as Steiner...cynical, disillusioned, worldweary, yet devoted to his comrades in his platoon, and utterly contemptuous of vain gloryhounds like Stransky. Also, I thought David Warner had a great supporting turn as Captain Kiesel. Warner's scenes with James Mason as Colonel Brandt were some of the best scenes in the film.
@@Torgo1001 The most impressing scene in my opinion is when Coburn told all the young soldiers
to flee in order to rebuild new Germany and he said to the other officer, who wanted to be decorated with a iron cross, to go with him and fought the incoming red army soldiers for winning the cross.
ruclips.net/video/ZvsintGi5JA/видео.html "The Battle of Russia (1943)"....USA/
I fought here all the way from Kenya and those Germans were badass but we held our own.
I've been watching all I can on this topic lately to try and predict/understand what will happen in the upcoming offensive in Ukraine. I don't think they will directly attack Crimea but rather try and isolate it. Unless Ukraine is able to establish air superiority (which is doubtful) I don't think a direct invasion of Crimea is feasible.
" Never worked with armoured groups before...?" Before Manstein took over 11th Army, he was commanding 8 Panzer in a corps command.The maps show Manstein as VI, not XI. For most of the time, the Crimean force had almost no tanks for most of the early campaign, then got a new Panzer division which hadn't fought together before.
Overall a very accurate account, though I found the VI/XI mistake annoying also. And some photos not accurate. At the beginning when showing planning for Barbarossa, Rommel was in the clip though he had nothing to do with it. And photos of Rundstedt always were of his capture by the U.S. after the war.
The pronunciation of Leibstandarte as “leebstandartay” is most annoying.
My very first time at your channel and I subscribed, thank you for the fantastic documentary.
My wife is from Ukraine.Ive been to this Battlefield many times and I'm pleased to report that except for the all the vineyards the "valley of death" still looks like it did in 1856.WW2 trenches are there too with original german artillery pieces above the trenches.The museums at Balaclava are excellent as are the displays of Russian Armor.This is as of 2012,with the Russian invasion I cant say.My friends tell me tourism has dropped off almost to nothing but everything is still there.
*The Russians could not invade their land, where 90% of the population are Russians, no one calls the city of Hero of Sevastopol other than the city of Russian military glory, this city withstood 2 military sieges and was under Ukrainian acupation for 23 years, now everything is fine there, infrastructure is being built , this year Crimea was visited by 6 million tourists! ;-)*
@@UltraTotenkopf True.I have always thought that sebastopol belonged to the Russians the my Ukranian wife thinks differently.I was there in 2012 when Russia moved in.I was a tourist.We were at train station in semphorlpol when the Russian tanks arrived.We left and have not returned,Yet.I want to go back to explore area.
@@model-man7802 divorce!ukranains will never understand crimea
@@model-man7802 The Russians did not "move in" to Sevastopol in 2012, they were already there under agreement with the Ukraine Rada to service the Black Sea fleet. In 2014, the referendum was held to determine whether Crimeans wanted to return to Russian rule, which they almost unanimously voted for. Not sure you have really been to Crimea but I have and was in Sevastopol for the referendum. You see, I AM married to a Russian-Ukrainian woman.
@@chrisgibbins9559 welcome to the club.My wife is from Kharkov about 11hrsawY by overnight train.Been to Balaclava?
Lots of brave men died..covered by the sands of time in it's relentless March ...
Too nice video with clear explaining of military events thanks
But to the Crimea. An excellent battle where German siege weapons were used to destroy Soviet strong points like Maxim Gorky. Some German armor was used to exploit to the Taman Peninsula, and a horrific sieige of the city including a surprise naval assault by the Germans. This battle had everything. Manstein was promoted to F.M. for his efforts. The Eleventh Armee was supposed to be held as a reserve for the Southern front after the Savastopol battle but was commited piecemeal around Leningrad. The Eleventh was sorely needed just 60 days later when Leibstandarte got kicked out of Rostov.
Please check the pronounciation of Leibstandarte. It;s not Liebstandarte.
Great stuff, tnx
Parts 1&2 are incredible documentaries with interesting micro details of brave soldiers, incompetent leaders and disastrous outcomes.
Take a huge grain of salt of salt with the footage, especially tanks. No Tigers or Panthers in this time frame, and the 22nd Panzer in Spring '42 MIGHT have had the new Pz IV F2 long-barrels. Otherwise some exceptional action portrayal.
ANNOYING AHISTORICAL FOOTAGE
AT LEAST THERE WERE NO T-55'S or Israeli SuperShemans
Are you going to be uploading all of the Battlefield series? The channel I usually watch have them all in 240/360p so it's nice to have something in a little higher quality.
I never knew the Crimea campaign was so drawn out .
Yep, The Germans were at the end of their logistical capabilities at this point.
Yes,for awhile it never ended.It was the most trumped up war by the media.It should have never happed.It was the first war reported in real time by the media by telegraphing.No more waiting for reports from a week earlier or a month earlier.This was the first war fought in Europe by England since 1815.No one was ready.The army suffered tremendous losses due to this.Russia was not expanding but defending what was hers.The Crimea belonged to Russia.
@@model-man7802 I mean if you're going to say that the Crimea belonged to Russia then you must also believe that Germany still belongs to Russia and Japan belongs to the United States. Otherwise you have a double standard
@@micfail2 True,We live in Kharkiv and my wife is Russian.There are very many People in Ukraine that are Russian but say nothing.Depends on where you live and how you look at History.Im an American but we live here.Eastern Ukraine you find many more Russians. Western Ukraine it's more Nationalistic.Depends on who you talk to,history and politics etc.How many years ha e you been here?
What a fantastic documentary
This was a majestic battle between national socialism and international socialism. In the end, both ideologies vanished and Crimea is still a popular sea resort.
Less than a century before, the Brits and French got bogged down here.
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A great place to not fight an offensive battle.
The Germans captured the whole peninsula.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
@@mdsf01 Into the valley of RUclips rode the 600
Thanks for uploading
Pity and honour and respect for those brave men of both sides whose sufferings we in the pampered west today can scarcely conceive of
Ploiesti city, and the oil fields and the refineries are in central Romania, in the Carpathians mountains, not near Odessa.
This happens with geography learned in American schools. I am surprised these guys could locate Ukraine.
LMAO. Such a hilarious mistake on their part
...Only geography ?...
excellent
Guerra! Essa loucura humana! Voltaire
The Crimean is death trap my great great grandfather fought there in the battle if Alma 1854 he was shot in the head survived to tell his story down to his ancestors....
There is now a very good road to the Alma memorial, very easy to get to. Greetings from Sevastopol!
To his ancestors? may be to his descedents...
@@francisco-vd9yv lmfao
I imagine everywhere the poor German dug here was either bones or equipment of British, French, or Turk ...
A propper Military Documentary and with corresponding film archive material for once ! Cheers
Yeah, but Zaporozhye is misplaced on the map and there are other mistakes😂
@@gigikontra7023 least it was more congruent than most!
@@danielgreen3715 the siege of Odessa was a total disaster for the Romanian army. Once Besserabia (now known as "Republic of Moldova") was recovered by Romania from Bolshevik hands, Romanian soldiers lost a lot of the motivation and to be honest they were also poorly equipped. Romania shouldn't have gone East of Odessa. The only reason why Romania became an axis country was to recover Eastern Moldova/Besserabia which was and still is inhabited by a large majority of Romanians (80% or so).
@@gigikontra7023 cheers Something you dont hear about!
@@danielgreen3715 Bolsheviks killed a lot of Romanians from Eastern Moldova (aka Republic of Moldova). My grandparents had a lot of friends that were refugees from that region... What a mess they made!
It's totally from the German perspective. Quite strange from our former ally to show the conflict through the eyes of the enemy
German assault eh ??
this tv series battlefield 1 and battlefield 2 are the best between similars
i think this was the turning point in the war the failure to capture the crimea instead of wasting thousands of troops trying to capture stalingrad which was nothing but rubble they could of dug in and defended the area once captured
When gods want to destroy a man they first make him mad, Germany was ripe for destruction and was made mad.
But Stalingrad was more than just capturing a rubble or just an ego fight. Imagine if the Army group south went ahead towards the Caucasus without securing their rear guard(not to mention the impossible logistics involved in that), then the Soviets could launch a counter attack and cutoff an entire army! This was the main reason army group south was split into 2 armies, one went towards the city and the other into Caucasus. I agree the Germans need not have entered into city warfare which was not their strength. But one way or the other it was needed to be captured as it was a railway hub and the only two railway lines towards maykop and ashtrakhan were from Stalingrad. It was vital in terms of logistics to keep the army supplied in the Caucasus. Maybe the Germans could have explored the option of an amphibious assault from Sevastopol into the Caucasus from Black sea. In hindsight we can explore all these possibilities but in real-time they did the best an invading country could do. The Soviets had the grit and gave it their all and deservedly won the war for their existence. I think Germans would have lost in any possible scenario as they were simply not ready in terms of war preparation and had so many enemies and really incompetent allies.
During the sequence (49:49 - 49:53) I see Tiger tanks. I don't think the Tiger I was deployed in March 1942.
Yup... and Panthers first arrived in 7/43
Nice.
I was born in Odessa moved with family to NY. One Jewish grandfather died in this battle, the other Russian grandfather was a partisan in Odessa catacombs
To put things in perspective, the Crimea is bigger than New Jersey but smaller than Maryland.
I bet NJ and Maryland have big trees and undulating countryside you could hide in and a complex road network where if you don’t fancy one route you could chose a couple of others compared to the Crimea’s sparse open desert like topography and limited access routes to advance where a defending army could utilise the terrain.
@@alexbowman7582 by the looks of the video there is some vegetation.
And just as worthless
The Heer...so brave...so wasted!
Stfu
Terrible carnage of men.
I'm glad I'm not a soldier . Brave men .
The footage is so good I wonder if it's borrowed from a Soviet made movie. I have watched many hours of actual combat and this documentary repeats scenes to help move the story along I guess, but a lot of authenticity seeing the breath freezing, never mind.
Yeah I had the same thought I thought that maybe a few clips of the Soviets charging with explosions in the background were from a film. If not then that is insane quality.
Ploesti is in the Southern part of Romania, 35 miles North of the capital, Bucharest not in the Eastern part. So 'just 250 miles to South West, eight o'clock....
yes, what a big error.
Siempre es bueno regresar y conocer la historia hitler carnicero pero inteligente movió masas e ejércitos me laten mucho
Sea of Azov northern steppe battle!
Soviets were dug in with many defensive divisions.
As I read through the comments, I am impressed how many people are interested in this subject, and already know something about it.
Images of von Runstedt at 4:09 and 5:09 suggest he is in American custody. Look how his cheeks sag.
Cos name of sevastopol rocks over again
Interesting how this was uploaded 5 months ago yet all the comments are all within the last week...
You can upload stuff without making it visible or visible only to selected people. You can even upload at one time and schedule when it appears.
@@dwightehowell8179 thank you! I thought it would have been an explanation as such. Cheers
I watch these documentaries about WW2. I have listened , but still have not yet heard Germany's side of the conflict. I am not talking about the rediculous "Germany was out to conquer the world" narrative , but an honest reason. The truth is , the victors write the history books. The world owes Germany an apology.
Ha ha you must be joking. Because of the Cold War, Manstein and the other German generals wrote the history of the Eastern Front.
This is where they really lost the war in the east
Its REALLY remarkable that the planning for "Barbarossa" never reasonably saw the implications in assaulting the Crimea. Obviously the Germans were, eventually, successful but at a huge cost. The expense in occupying Crimea doomed "Typhoon".
Typhoon happened more than six months before battle for Crimea began
@@pyatig Huh?! It started in October.. watch the video AGAIN, 'Pete'. The battle for C started in September! 😒
Always so many excuses...
You are wrong. All the german offensives were doomed because of the lack of infrastructure in the sowjet union and not because troops couldnt be moved or no reserves. That counts at least for "41 and "42. You can only supply so many troops in a certain area and the germans couldnt supply more troops in front of moscow.
The quartermaster general of the german army predicted that the first attack would take them to Smolensk and the second would get them to Moscow and he was optimistic with his calculations.
@@arnepietruszewski9255 Thank you for being.. 'correct'. We ALL have read the history books. Nevertheless. After AH overruled List and Guerdian over their insistence on pushing on to Moscow in July and instead diverting towards Kiev the MAIN PLAN still asserted that MOSCOW was priority. As the video explains AH was CONSTANTLY, from the 22nd, interfering with.. THE PLAN! 'Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda'.. then the entire matter of occupying the Crimean peninsula was a colossal mistake! Even if Stalin had ordered these forces to initiate offensive actions!!
"TAKE MOSCOW BEFORE WINTER, mein Fuehrer!" ☠
One of my uncles died in that hell hole, the other one at Kursk.
my great-grand father was born there, he was a school mathematics teacher. He enrolled in the army and went all the way until Vienna where he died just few months before the end of war. But he managed to wipe out lots of uncles from the wermarht. I got his name now.
Just remember who took Berlin in 1945(Red Army) and never forget it
In this video there is no question as to what country Crimea belongs to geographically, clearly it is registered as being part of the Russian Federation. In contrast however, to this date western powers claim that it is part of the Ukraine. Let me assure the viewers that historically Crimea was never and in future it will never be part of Ukraine. Just like TransCarpathia was never part of Ukraine for One Thousand Years, because it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
@Akra Seil If you look again I have changed it to read, Crimea is part of the Russian Federation . Hopefully this will satisfy your criticism. Thank you for letting me know. My only other additional comment is that Crimea was incorporated previously as being part of the Soviet Union within the borders of the Ukraine Republic.
It's Ukrainian.
What about the Budapest memorandum? That makes it very clear.
Strange how Hitler thought he must have known by 1944 that he has lost the war
By 1943,that bustard knew, he was loosing the grip, right after STALINGRAD battle. GLORY to USSR
He admitted to Mannerheim in 1942 that they had severely underestimated USSRs industrial capacity. Recording of the converversation : ruclips.net/video/ClR9tcpKZec/видео.html
I see where Hoffnangal, Bessarabia is still there at this era, before being absorbed by Russia at the treaty of Versailles.
Treaty of Versailles was 1919
Bessarabia is a historic romanian teritory occupied in 1812 by tzarist empire,Versailles treaty of 1919 saw this province unified with Romania after collapse of tzarist Russia in 1918,and then, in 1944 re-occupied by Stalin's Red Army...
There is no "the" in Crimea, it's just Crimea.
You wouldn't say the England, the France, or the Germany.
That thumbnail pic looks kinda badass lol
It’s Sunday, education day.
50:00 Not these tanks did arrive
I thought this was a The Crimean War documentary.
The most intense seige artillery bombardments ever unleashed.
From a post war movie most likely, or staged for the german newsreel cameras > 15:06
First german war map room ive seen without hitler worming his way in > 26:31
LEIbstandarte not LIEbstandarte!!
Otherwise good documentary
Living standarrd?
34:25 - a real Dog of War is approaching with his group of soldiers...
Looks like Hungarians.
I came here for the old vids
Rudel got away from a Russian with a ppsh at point blank range...that takes balls.
Soviet*
Your first map showing Manstein has him commanding Sixth ("VI") Army.
13:42 - a kid as a soldier ... :(
There really was no way the NAZIs could have pulled this off, not enough trucks.....to start with.
Yeah they were idiots for attacking Russia. If they didn’t ....we could be Nazi Germany or Worse.
not enough oil for what they had so... trucks out of fuel are worthless
There's a lot..but I'll keep it short
Germany & Catholic Poland had good relations until the death of Marshal Pilsudski in 1935....The Soviets were the natural nemesis
of Poland who had just successfully fought them off. Poland should have done what the Finns did....but they're new leadership were somehow secretly played off by France, then Britain.
The Germans could have 'made it further' if they had put their resources first into making the Med an Axis lake by taking out Gibraltar, gave her to Franco, bringing in Spain, then go for the Suez....then up into Palestine, Vichy Lebanon, & the Arabian oil fields forming a Free Arab Legion...and then bring in their old WW1 ally, Turkey.
But in the end, it would have all ended in a series of mushrooms over Germany in August 45'
@@rpm1796 I feel like If the Germans went straight for the med, the Soviets would have attacked them.
Stalin was about to invade Germany and we all saw what a Russian invasion from the east would look like so the Germans had no choice, they had to invade the USSR first, it was a protective measure. Go to 4 mins 53.
www.altcensored.com/watch?v=tOEMPxoC52E
The Germans would have gone nowhere around the Med, too close to middle east oil. Hitler had a deal with the Ottomans, he could extend The Orient Express Railwahes to go. The Allies knew how important the oil was, that's why they allied with Russia, Baku, that's why stupid Winston lost the Dardanelles, that's why Winston kept insisting with FDR, he wanted North Adfrica first, that's why... yes, him, Winston ordered the french fleet destroyed afraid Germany would take the ships,... Obviously, the Germans would have over extended themselves leaving the fatherland unprotected.
I thought this was a The Crimean War documentary.
2nd WW version
4:13 The soldier stand behind on the left corner of the photo seems in US uniform?
Good eye. It's a photo of FM Von Runstedt and his son at the end of WW 2 when they surrendered to the US Army.
@@d.v.2688 Thanks for answering
Should have kept the army together and went straight for the oil fields.
The same with Romanians.. they started along Germans with the South Gernan arrnies to get back MOLOVA, BASARABIA AND BCOVINA TAKEN BY RUSSIANS IN 1939 AND PART OF TRANSILVANIA BY HUNGARIANS/GERMANS but in the end thanks to changes inn the situation Romanians revolted against GERMANS AND JOINED RUSIANS all the way to.. Tatra Mountains.. they were not allowed in Germany by Russians and by the way, those parts of Romania still under Russians and Ukraine control
Soviets*
We romanians never revolted against germans at all.
There was a coup against Antonescu on 23 august, because he refused to capitulate when he was ordered by the king.
After his arrest, the country went out from the war and gave the germans the time to retreat.
But the germans didn't accepted this, and started to bomb the capital and tried to seize it, but the northern airports were defended by the romanians troops and paratroopers(this in fact was the first time in romanian military history that paratroopers were used in active combat).
Then, the new romanian governament declared war on Germany.
Read v. Manstein's "Lost Victories"....it explains it all.
From his (understandably) biased perspective. This doc fleshes out the struggles on both sides.
Actually both Guderians and v. Manstiens autobiographies are biased towards their own side. However, they are great reads.
@@Phalanx11 I just got the book and jumped ahead to Crimea and found it a bit dry, but he was a Prussian military genius, not a Tolstoy.
I do look forward to going back to the beginning.
When I was a kid I read "The First and The Last" by Galland and "The Forgotten Soldier" and found them very good.
Another good book to read is "Stuka Pilot" by Rudel, he was an outstanding soldier.
@@Phalanx11 And the most die-hard Nazi ever...but yeah I want to read that. Also Otto Carius.
Kersh...still an issue in 2020.
Kerch..
Can't watch as I see Zaporozhye city on this map more than about 100 kilometers to the east from Dnieper river as it is actually located on it's banks. And Melitopol is also too far on east and far from Azov on this map while it's a bit to the south from Dnieper, like in between Dnieper and the Azov coast.
What's the clip at 47:40 from?
I kind of understand now why the Russians are so adamant about keeping Crimea Russian.
It's Ukrainian dude...
@@Ingen.17 Yes, it is, and the UN agree. But my point is that it is understandable that there is a high level of passion regarding this from the Russian side as a result of history. I am not saying they are right only that it is understandable.
@@Ingen.17 Physically it's part of Ukraine. Culturally it's Russian.
Did those boats have T-34 turrets on them?
I'd love to learn german language, but free of course, Internet course. I learnt English by myself and French but not German yet. Just in case you know ...
11th Army and it is labeled as VI on your map... ?
Yeah it's pretty funny
Do you see russian seamen not wearing hardhats/helmets? Cause they "hate" infantry and thair attributes
"Cause they "hate" infantry and thair attributes"?
@@MrMenefrego1 sailors disdain infantry. When they were forced to fight on the land they refuse to wear helmets. Helmet is attribute of a foot soldier
@@Simbiryanin1 I wasn't actually requesting more detailed information on your opinion. (I was in the USMC, so, I well understand interservice-rivalry), I was trying to accent, (point-out) the way in which you butchered the English language. I really don't care how sailors feel about infantry, or anything else for that matter.
@@MrMenefrego1 but u cant refuse that ,for example,CVs "tailhooks" are suggesting thereselves an aircombatant,s elite?im sure they are!
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Though the German military was well led, their success in the Soviet Union can be primarily attributed to Stalin's near complete extermination of the Soviet officers. Had the Soviet forces been led by competent officers the war would have been won far sooner.
Yep - you can see how well were competent European and British officers doing with Germans.
@@romanpavlov9706 They lost all battles until 1942 ... and if it weren't for the great help of intelligence with the enigma machine, the British would continue to lose ...
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why there is 'VI' if it was called 'eleventh army'? I thought XI is eleven....
Cuz "education" is now considered a leftist thing for elite liberal commies, I think. Just guessing. /s
@@nextworld9176 why do you have to bring left/right rhetoric here? there is absolutely no relevance between a potential mistake and your comment. By the way 'Cuz' is not a word, well educated man
@@femazik Thx for giving me a soapbox this morning. As a journalism major with a business masters and long experience in the military and having edited a commercial magazine, I'm REALLY very familiar with how rules and conventions differ between writings in different media and for different purposes. In social media, dam nr nything cn b a wurd.
I brought up (with sarcasm) the conservative hatred for education (and the Christian hatred of education) because it makes me so damn mad, I bring it up at every opportunity, cuz. ;)
@@nextworld9176 no need to brag about any of that either... you have to calm down...
@@femazik Thx for posting the vid comparing Sheets to Xcel.
at 40:40 it would've been nice if this documentary mentioned the massacre of Feodosiya hospital when the soviet advanced to the city and killed the wounded Germans and mutilate their bodies . it was very important to mention because it was One of the First Open war crime by both side started by the soviet in their weakest point of the war in 1941